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marginal one at a distance from the edge and sometimes very prominent 
towards the base of the leaf. Flowers small, about 3.to 8 together on short 
peduncles, the umbels forming usually axi lary or terminal panicles s shorter 
the leaves. Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Caly; pine hen hipaa, 
nearly 14 lines long. Operculum rather thin, ee ett: um- 
bonate, shorter than the Pe tube. Stamens 1 to 2 lines es al pe 
F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 84 and Fra ; E hemastoma, Miq. 
in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 130, as to the redes eua not of Sm. 
sland. Port Denison, Dallach 
.S. Wales. Port Jackson and William r, R. Brown ; Baulkham hills, ee 
bark,” Caley ; on the Maran noa, S. of St. Goen 8 px * Bastard. Box," og chell 
the in dis m ncn: from the Darling to the Barrier range, Victoria pedi 
Ma e scrub, near the Avoca and generally ia the N.W. SE of ‘the 
colony, * Zä Box,” ueller, and others 
et near the Murray a and thence to St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller, 
and others ; Three Wal river, Fairis with rather larger flowers 
Var. pa parviflora, F. Muell. Flowers much smaller. Stamens not 1 line long.— Burdekin 
river, E Muel 
ee southern and desert specimens have rather thicker leaves than those from Queensland, 
tT can find no other difference. In all there are occasionally 2 or r3 flowers on the speci- 
M twice th size ofthe ether s, with the st perhaps owing - 
. "Osome insect. The eiecit differs from "E. polyanthemos in its "rev leaves and from E. 
odorata in inflorescence 
r ?8. E. odora rata, Behr in Linnea., xx. 657. A small or moderate-sized 
E us With a eg grey rough persiste X M dk (CF. Mueller). Leaves lanceo- 
usually n row, but sometimes broad, rarely above 4 in. long, rather 
ery flexuose and sli htly inflected in the bud; anthers very small, with 
Las distinct dela v opening in pores or short oblong slits. Ovary flat- 
` ath ruit obovoid- truncate, about 2 lines diameter, slightly contracted 
i * orifice or almost urceolate tapering at the base, the rim not road; 
E Dën deeply sunk.—F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 66, and Pl. Viet. Suppl. 
[- h. iy „Miq. in Ned. Ges Arch. iv. 129; E porosa, Miq. in. Ned. Kruidk. 
v. 132; g, cajuputea, Miq. 1. c. 126. 
Ge ER alia. Hills chiefly dee near Flinders Ran es and towards Spencer’s 
3 ineent’s gulfe, “ Peppermint tree” and “Red Gum,” F. Mueller. 
SN anth f specimens bear much shane to E. melliodora, "bet have the qi leaves and 
ge A7 Hl perfect and ee globular of E. odorata, they are not in 
- t. floribunda, E nflorescence occasionally compound, connecting the aie in some 
